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JOI-IN FRICK, OF IJARAMIE, VYOMING TERRITORY.

CANE-GUN.

SPECIFlCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,373, dated April 22, 1890.

' Application filed January 13, 1890. Serial No. 336,826. (No model.)

To c//ZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN FRICK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Laramie, in the county of Albany, Territory of lVyoming, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cane-Guns, of which the following is a specication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The objects of my improvement are to provide a simple and inexpensive cane-gun, but with the parts sufficiently strong to carry a large cartridge and explode its charge. I attain these objects by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which` Figure 1 is a side view of a cane-gun constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal section of a portion of the same with the hammer raised. Fig. 3 is a rear View of the same with the breech-block part of the frame turned partly around. Fig. 4: is a side view of the breech-frame and part of the barrel with the cartridge-shell lifted by the extractor, and Fig. 5 is a side view of the butt-stock.

In said drawings, A. represents the breechframe, to which the barrelor cane B is screwed or otherwise secured in any well-known manner. In a groove of said breech-frame is placed the extractor e, having a laterally-proj ecting lip e2, adapted to engage under the iiange c of a cartridge-shell C. The opposite end of the extractor has a finger-piece e3 screwed thereon, by which it can be moved up and down by hand. The breech-block AZ forms with the breech-frame A. the handle of the cane. Said breech-block is pivoted to said breech-frame upon a large screw d, passing through the latter and having its screwthreaded end in engagement with the bottom portion of the breech-block. To retain said breech-block in firm engagement with the breech-frame adjacent to the cartri dge-receiving opening' in the latter, the segmental end of the breech-block is provided with a segmental .tongue 0,2, to enter and be received into a similar groove a, in the breech-frame, and on the opposite side of the cartridge-receiving opening the'breech-frame has a tongue a3 to enter a similar groove a4 in the breech-block.

To the breech-block the hammer H is pivoted at h and is connected by means of the link h2, with its operating bent spring f retained, as usual, at its bent portion attached to the breech-block. The sear g is also pivoted to said block. The trigger is retained by the breech-frame. It consists of apin k, the head of which is located under the sear and rests upon a shelf extending in the perforation made for its reception. Around said pin 7c is placed a coiled spring k2, that has one end pressing against said shelf and the other end against a button 7e3, and said button projects` beyond the surface of the breech-frame and is adapted to be pressed by the finger of a person to rock the sear and release the elevated hammer. Said hammer is provided with a firing pin or projection h3, adapted to strike the priming of the cartridge C. To prevent the breech-block from being swung too far, its

rear end is provided with a small pin to enter a segmental groove i in the breech-frame.

To give a shoulder-support to the cane-gun, the breech-block is provided with a perforation Z, to receive one end of the rod L, forming a part of the butt-stock of suitable size.

Having now fully described my invention, I claiml. In a cane-gun, the combination of the cane or barrel, the breech-frame at right angles thereto and provided with a segmental groove a, with a breech-block having a segmental tongue CL2 at the end thereof and interlocking with the groove a when in a closed position, and a pivot-screw uniting the pivoted breechblock to the breech-frame, substantially as described. j

2. In a cane-gun, the combination of the cane or barrel, the breech-frame at right angles thereto and provided with a segmental groove at one end, with a breech-block having a segmental tongue at the end and interlocking with the groove in the breech-frame when in a closed position, a pivot-screw uniting it to the breech-frame, a hammer pivoted to the breech lolock, and the hammeroperating spring inclosed in said breech-block,'substantially as described.

3. In a gun, the combination of the barrel, the breech-frame at right angles thereto and provided with a groove on one side of the cartridge-receiving bore in said breech-frame,

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and a tongue on the opposite side With a breech-block pivoted to said breech-frame and having a tongue and a groove to interlock with the groove and tongue of the breechframe, a hammer pivoted to the breech-block, its spring inclosed in said block, the sear pivoted to said block and the trigger, 'and its spring carried by the breech-frame, substantially as described.

4c. In a cane-gun, the combination of the cane or barrel, the breech-frame at right angles thereto, the cartridge-extractor passing through the breech-frame parallel with said barrel and having its finger-piece projecting alongside of the barrel, with the hammercarrying breech-block normally covering the inner end of the extractor, substantially as flescribed.

5. In a cane-gun, the combination of the cane or barrel, the breech-frame at right angles thereto, the hammercarrying breech-block pivoted to the breech-frame, and the buttstock having one end removably inserted in a perforation in said. pivoted breech-block, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOI-IN FRICK. Witnesses:

C. W. SPALDING, E. T. BELTZ. 

